Inter-Korean Animated Film Opens in NY

The animated feature film "Empress Chung", an inter-Korean production, has opened at the French Institute in New York.

The Nelson Shin film is the first joint production between the two Koreas and was made to mark the 60th anniversary of national liberation.

The feature was also the first movie to open in both Koreas at the same time.

Director Shin, who was born in present-day North Korea, began work on the film in 1999 and had most of the animation done in the North.

Shin has produced more than 1,000 animated films including Transformers and the Simpsons and has won eight Emmy Awards.

Reported by KBS World Radio

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